Facebook’s fact-checkers flag satire as fake news

Posted on March 2, 2018

Facebook on Friday said it mistakenly threatened to demonetize a satirical website's social networking account after one of its articles, "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication," was debunked by Snopes, the fact-checking site used to help counter the platform's fake news problem.

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